git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
Björn Gustavsson 16679e373f Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'
Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either
groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is
to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch.

It would have been nice if this option was not needed, but since
the colon in a refspec is optional, it is in general not possible
to know whether a single, colon-less argument is a remote or a
refspec.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10 01:01:07 -08:00

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git-fetch(1)
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NAME
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git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository
SYNOPSIS
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'git fetch' <options> <repository> <refspec>...
'git fetch' <options> <group>
'git fetch' --multiple <options> [<repository> | <group>]...
'git fetch' --all <options>
DESCRIPTION
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Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories,
along with the objects necessary to complete them.
The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge
operation done by 'git-merge'.
When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches,
the tags that point at these branches are automatically
followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using
the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are
pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch
those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at
branches you are not interested in, you will not get them.
'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or
or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and
there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
(See linkgit:git-config[1]).
OPTIONS
-------
include::fetch-options.txt[]
include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
include::urls-remotes.txt[]
SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-pull[1]
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite